'Three' in the Bible

"I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days, and they have nothing to eat.

Then Jesus began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

So Peter said to Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let us make three shelters -- one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

for he was teaching his disciples and telling them, "The Son of Man will be betrayed into the hands of men. They will kill him, and after three days he will rise."

They will mock him, spit on him, flog him severely, and kill him. Yet after three days, he will rise again."

It could have been sold for more than three hundred silver coins and the money given to the poor!" So they spoke angrily to her.

Jesus said to him, "I tell you the truth, today -- this very night -- before a rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times."

"We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple made with hands and in three days build another not made with hands.'"

Immediately a rooster crowed a second time. Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said to him: "Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times." And he broke down and wept.

Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads and saying, "Aha! You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,

Now when it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

Around three o'clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"